Real World Python Test Automation with Pytest (Django app) (Udemy.com)

Disappointed. Found the material superficial and the instructor not explaining things very well / prone to rambling that often felt unstructured. I still learned a fair bit about python specifics of unit testing, was just hoping to get a lot more from the time invested. It feels like it barely scratches a lot of topics, for example, mocking, shows just the very basic examples without actually showing much of how and when you would want to use it. Lots of time spent on building the system we're going to test, instead of just giving code for it and going briefly through it. Minor, but lots of small irritating things that could be improved to make quality of life of the viewer better, like fixing the small font that is barely visible on the screen, and avoiding frequent abrupt jumps between tiny code to a full screen face and back (don't need to see so much full screen face), abruptly ending videos, and tiny chapters that could probably use better grouping. Struggled to finish because of the little irritating things, not feeling that I'm learning what I wanted, and boredom.

Vary nice course and very good teaching. You can see that Eden put a lot of time into this course. There are a lot of very good, useful information. The course is is very interactive, giving not only theory, but also hands-on experience. The only issue I have is with the size of the font and picture sometimes, but when I was watching it on my big monitor it was okay. I encountered some Importing error issues but noticed that there is a Troubleshooting Section that eliminated most of the problems. For some reason my pipeline on bitbucket was failing when running fibonacci tests that I wrote myself and it seems like another Import error that I cannot understand. Otherwise everything works. Eden is a good teacher and it is important for him that you understand, not just copy-pasting. I am not new to testing and Django, so some concepts were familiar to me, but I also learned some new concepts as well.

Pros: The course really aims to provide a real-world Pytest experience, the instructor is at all times trying to show you the naïve approach to solving issues and the way it’s actually done in the industry. We not only learn about Pytest itself, but also helpful plugins, services that helps us with testing when using a remote repo, useful Python modules and the list goes on. I admit I was a bit skeptical at first about having to make a Django project inside the course, but it definitely was the way to go, since it provided a very fruitful “framework” for our tests. Cons: I personally don't like the way the code is presented (pasting the complete snippet on the editor), I find that coding alongside the instructor helps me focus more on each line of code I write and what should the next step be, though I should point out that this is a personal preference of mine and it’s nothing that made my experience with the course any worse. Another thing that bothered me was the font size. When on fullscreen is ok, but when you have to go back-and-forth to see the code and actually write it, it was a bit annoying to have to squint. TL;DR: I believe this course is worth it, especially if you don’t have much experience in Pytest and testing in general. The instructor is very highly knowledgeable in both Python and Pytest, and although I felt some aspects of the presentation where a bit annoying, these small issues boil down to personal preference. The course aims at all times to provide the real way testing is approached in the industry and having an experienced tester is definitely a plus.

This course has EVERYTHING you want, first in terms of learning the core material, but ALSO in terms of "OK how do I functionally apply it with 'real-world' applications" (e.g., Django, CD/CI, etc.). (85% completed) - OK - I've taken well over a dozen courses at Udemy and other places. This course delivers SO MUCH that in comparison to other courses (most of which were just fine on their own) it just blows them away. This is definitely the best course I've ever taken - to the point where I can hardly wait to finish JUST SO I can start using what I've learned (in testing? really? of all the things to learn?) - yup. I am also AMAZED at the dedication of the instructor TO this course. 5 stars for sure, but it's too bad there isn't also some kind of "best in show" award/tag/badge one can assign to courses. This one deserves it.

If someone is looking for the best practices in testing then no need to look further and you are at the right place, Eden's course is at the top of the list. After this course, I finally understood why pytest would make my life much easier if I want to test my code. Thank you Eden for bringing your work experience to explain how pytest made a difference in your life. Now, I also love the magic of fixtures! Thanks to Eden, I got the big picture of how different testing systems are integrated with each other. The experience of how to integrate is just unmatched. Now that I know how to integrate different testing systems I can always go into even more in-depth learning about CI/CD, Postman, Slack, and Allure. I like that Eden explained in the course what is the difference between unittest, pytest, django.test framework, and pytest-django testing. Now and then in my previous projects, I struggled with PyCharm module imports and environment variables, and finally, in this course, I learned an elegant way how to solve these issues. What I also like about this course is the quick assistance from Eden in case I need assistance from him. I also appreciate the last section of the course where Eden gives ideas about what can be learned next after finishing this course. Definitely, five stars for this course!

The course is very good actually, goes nicely in depth with pytest, and shows the difference between it and Unitest. The only problems I had was with the Django part, which became a little confusing, a lot of things there were done in the beginning had to be fixed or remade, a lot of PATH problems, which I didn't get while setting up django using venv and other things, instead of pipenv. Also the course uses bitbucket, In my personal opinion, could be more useful to learn how to do the pipelines in GitHub (but might be my personal case only), and it's something you can learn quickly as well

The course so far is really good and complete. I am very happy of buying it and Eden knows what he is talking about. but I got a bit lost in a couple of occasions that made me waste a lot of time: 1) One problem that is included included in the troubleshooting section and also mentioned during the training before doing the PYTHONPATH adjustments. My problem is that I had that error but only way after doing the adjustments to the path, so I did not associate it. This made me to re-do the whole training again. I admit big part was my fault for not reading it on time, but would be great to have it mentioned again after adjusting the path variable. 2) when doing the django email tests, in my ase, I was getting a strange 302 permanent redirect when calling the '/send-email' enpoint. In my case, for no reason, it was expecting actually '/send-mail/'. This also made me waste a lot of time, but is almost impossible for the instructor to mention all problems :) Another thing that bothered me a bit, is that some outputs from the tests are showing the parallel testing before explaining it. Just annoying, not important, but would be less confusing having those outputs after explaining how to set it up. For the rest it is exactly what I had in mind. Fantastic training and I will definitely recommend it (so far).

Отличный курс! Я узнал много нового, об использовании pytest, с которым раньше не сталкивался. Особая благодарность Идену за поддержку. Я впервые вижу, чтобы на udemy преподаватель проверял задания и давал обратную связь. Да, у курса есть недочеты со звуком и видимостью кода в некоторые моменты, о чем упоминают в других отзывах, но они компенсируются содержанием и стараниями автора. Иден, большое спасибо за проделанную работу! Great course! I've learned a lot about using pytest that I haven't encountered before. Special thanks to Eden for his support. This is the first time I've seen a teacher on udemy check assignments and give feedback. Yes, the course has shortcomings with sound and code visibility at some points, which are mentioned in other reviews, but they are compensated by the content and efforts of the author. Eden, thank you very much for the work done!

Good job on creating this course! I see how it has expanded with some new modules and information about testing and software development in general. The description on Pytest, the exposition to the documentation and alternate libraries and plugins was really cool. The comparison with unittest was clear, so I was able to see why Pytest could rapidly become a tool of choice for us when testing. I liked that the info was concise and the examples relevant. Eden did a good job by explaining everything slowly and summarizing at the end of each video. I also liked his disposition to answer questions, either here or in the alternate contact methods (The telegram group was a huge plus), so as an instructor, he's also really cool. One recommendation I have (even though I didn't get those errors) is to put the Troubleshooting section after the Section, so people can debug their Django installation :) I've learned a lot with this course and I feel more confident now on my testing abilities!

Overall the course material is solid. It covers a lot of great stuff for using Pytest, and the instructor's explanations are very clear. But I have to rate it a bit lower because the production quality and organization is not good. The volume levels change from video to video, the text editor font size is so small that it's nearly unreadable for more than half of the course, some of the lessons seem to be out of order, and the instructor always pastes in blocks of code, which means I had to constantly stop the video to type it out, which was even made more annoying because of the small font size. I'm glad I did this course, but it really tried my patience at times. If his future courses have those issues I mentioned fixed, then I think they will probably be rated much higher.